In fact, the fastest-growing section of your local bookstore these days is apt to be the one devoted to comics and so-called graphic novels. |
The decision was made for me as the violin quartet over in one corner of the bookstore started to play something soft and melodious. |
The loudspeakers played the gamut from opera to light jazz and disembodied laughter floated forward from the back of the bookstore. |
I'd have just enough time to get to the hotel, clean up, change into presentable, respectable clothes, and make my way to the bookstore. |
I can also return that book for store credit without the bookstore accusing me of photocopying the book at home. |
So before I left for Hartford, I went to a bookstore and purchased a book on IBM assembly language and read it. |